"An in-depth look at the tools and techniques professionals use to address financial risksRisk and uncertainty, as Allan Malz explains in his ground-breaking new book, are two completely different concepts. Risk is a quantifiable uncertainty that can be modeled, while uncertainty defines...

Financial risk has become a focus of financial and nonfinancial firms, individuals, and policy makers. But the study of risk remains a relatively new discipline in finance and continues to be refined. The financial market crisis that began in 2007 has highlighted the challenges of managing...

This paper investigates how recent changes in market interest rates have affected risk-adjusted returns. Returns are adjusted for duration, a measure of interest rate risk. Prior to the 2007-2008 rate decrease, one-year Treasuries offered the best risk/return tradeoff. As a result of the rate...

Over the last two decades, default rates and market risk have increased substantially. A consequence of the growing global interlacing is a strong dependence between both individual stock returns and credit events. Risk management (especially risk diversification) is much more challenging,...

This paper presents a new solution technique for the non-linear pricing equation of equity contingency claims that arises in the presence of CVA adjustments. Our approach is based on a perturbation approximation of the full PDE that employs the duality relationships between parameter- and...